estimated launch: February 2025
A cantata for resistance and reconciliation
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14th June 2024
Work in progress: Composition and performance of a cantata for Shofaroth, Mazamir, voices and electronics.
Find out more at Trans-Media-Academy page.
created together with Eunice Martins. Working with C. Rockefeller Centre in Dresden, with the Alternative Jewish Community of Dresden, led by the only Hasidic Liberal Community in Dresden, JÜDISCHE KULTUSGEMEINDE DRESDEN and Montagscafe Dresden, initiated by the Dresdener Schauspielhaus.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 25 September 2023 – 17 March 2024 photo work of synagogues in the Arab world in the group-show „Oriental Perfumes”
VENUE TBA, 1 November 2023 – 6 PM Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin work : Camels are Whispering – video film screening MEP Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris
a VR experience in co-collaboration with Ibrahim Quraishi and the Dutch-Polish AR-VR co-concept idea developer Stanislav Liguziński, with the German VR game programmer Julia Braenzel. Immersive 3D sound & original compositions by the German sound creator Heidrun Schramm and the Belge- Portuguese -German composer Eunice Martins. VR Environment design by the Dutch-Israeli Visual Effect & Motion Designer, Itay Ziv. Avatars created by the Serbian-English duo: Marija Avramovic and Sam Twidale. Artistic advice: Ewa Majewska & Oliver Baurheen. Co-produced by Revolver Amsterdam Films NL and Medea Film Factory Berlin.
Fall 2023 Publication of fiction novel Being everywhere, being nowhere by Seven Stories Press, New York
Spring 2024 Artist in Residency at Manenwolfs food lab and artistic research center, Rotterdam NL
Those that move… a two channel video and sound installation, curated by Jacek Sosnowski, Galeria Fondation Propaganda Warsaw in collaboration with Ethnographic Museum Warsaw. Date TBA
Two channel video, immersive sound inside an encompassing architectural installation
By: Ibrahim Quraishi
co-production CTM -Festival for Adventurous Music and Art, Berlin
co-production PRPGND - Propaganda Warsaw
curated by Oliver L. Baurhenn & Jacek Sosnowski
composition video/ film: Eunice Martins, Heidrun Schramm,
composition architectural installation: Mike Ladd, Norscq
sound design with: Astvaldur Axel
architectural space design with collective RaumlaborBerlin
video edit with: Alex Weiss, Ilan katin
with the voice recordings of André Torres Lepecki, Armelle Laborie-Sivan, Amirali Ghasemi, Angela Davis, Assia Djebar, Black Sifichi, Diego Agulló, Eleonora Fabião, Eyal Sivan, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Hanna Schygulla, Heimo Lattner, Jessica Ekomane Etoua, Judith Butler, Komi Togbonou, Marina Abramovic, Margarete Mitscherlich, Naeem Mohaiemen, Najib Abidi, Nawal Al Saadawi, Noam Chomsky, Rubén González Escudero, Sabine Jainski, Seyran Ateş, Veronique Ruggia-Saura, with Noa Gur interpreting the current discourse of Arab & Israeli female politicians : Aida Touma-Suleiman & Merav Michaeli.
“Ibrahim created a sonic geography of resistance for this installation based on a completion of selected voices of different artists, thinkers & activists to be presented as part of 2022 CTM Festival Berlin”
updated 2023
IBRAHIM QURAISHI is a multidisciplinary artist working across analogue photography, painting, video, film, architectural sculpture, and performance installation. His practice explores visual performativity and its relationship to cultural perspective, migration, and identity. Shaped by a nomadic worldview and a mixed South Arabian--Habesha-Yemeni, Uzbek-Pakistani background, Quraishi holds both U.S. and French nationalities and divides his time between Europe and the Middle East. In its 2017 survey, ARTNET described Quraishi as “a visual artist whose work encompasses various mediums” and noted his conscious exploration of “the dynamics of migration.” His projects combine research, pedagogy, and artistic production, often engaging questions of memory, displacement, ritual, and political imagination. Quraishi engages in research, teaching and creative work simultaneously in various cities and spaces, such as Crone Galeri Berlin; Lumen Travo Amsterdam; Parliament of Bodies DOCUMENTA 14, Kassel; MoCA Taipei; Rubin Museum of Arts New York; Institut du Monde Arabe Paris; PRPGND: Galeria Propaganda Warsaw / Pavilion 02 Venice; Museo Nacional de Arte Mexico City; Asia Society, New York; Independent Art Space for New Media Society, Tehran; Galerie Wedding, Berlin; Kochi-Muziris Biennale Kerala; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; National Museum Singapore; Africa Center, Cape-Town; Kunsthalle Vienna; Japan Foundation Tokyo...
He is Artist in Residence & Fellow at the Dept. Of Rural Sociology at WUR : Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands; a member of the Fine Arts faculty at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. From 2014–2017 he was a regular guest professor at the Netherlands Film Academy, and previously taught extensively at the Amsterdam University of the Arts between 2007 and 2014. Quraishi is currently completing his first feature film, "Holy Mama", produced by Rohfilm Productions in Berlin. He also recently co-composed, together with Eunice Martins, the cantata "WALLS are tumbling down" for 21 musicians and four voices in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, German, and English. The work is co-produced by the TMA: Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau; C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts Dresden. With the first working open public rehearsal presentation November 2025 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden together in collaboration with Das Montagscafé an immersive immigrant community initiative. Supported by the Musikfonds de. With “WALLS", he is working on a 7 Part immersive sound and installation. His debut novel, "Being Everywhere, Being Nowhere", is scheduled for publication in 2027 by Seven Stories Press in New York. Quraishi is also a regular cultural-political columnist for the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz) and a contributor to CounterPunch. In 2021–2022, he was awarded a fellowship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds in Germany, and most recently received the MBB-Förderung für Experimentalfilme from the Kunstmetropole Berlin.